Ukraine's General Staff reports strike on oil facility in Russia's Samara Oblast and military airfield in Lipetsk

Ukraine's defence forces struck an oil facility in Russia's Samara Oblast, where the Urals export crude blend is produced, and the Lipetsk-2 military airfield in Lipetsk Oblast on 13 November.

Source: Ukraine's General Staff

Details: The General Staff said Ukrainian forces had hit the Samara linear production and dispatch station near the village of Prosvet. A fire broke out at the facility, and several oil storage tanks are burning.

The station receives oil through trunk pipelines from Tatarstan, Western Siberia and other Russian regions. The oil is blended there to produce Urals, which accounts for up to half of Russia's oil exports.

The General Staff also reported the damage inflicted in the strike on the Lipetsk-2 military airfield in Russia's Lipetsk Oblast.

It said the strike had hit a hangar housing specialised aircraft servicing equipment, an aviation fuel storage tank and the airfield's main air traffic control centre.

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